Contains a previously unpublished manuscript, together with selections from published materials
Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-432)
Setting and background -- Technology and economic organization -- Social organization -- The potlatch -- War -- Religion -- The winter ceremonial -- The winter ceremonial (continued) -- Mythology -- The arts -- Life cycle materials -- Appendixes: Gestures -- Medicine -- Games -- The northern ceremonial -- The winter ceremonials of the DEnaxdax